Everyone who has difficulty with spelling words correctly can derive some comfort from knowing that some very good writers have been notoriously bad spellers. It's also comforting to bad spellers to know that this business of spelling seems to have little to do with intelligence. It has more to do with how we remember things. Some people, once they've seen a word spelled correctly, will never misspell that word again. Those are the people who, if you ask them how to spell a word, will first say, "Wait a second. Let me write it down." If you are not a strong visual learner, but learn in other ways, you will have to learn some other tricks to become a strong speller.
Spelling list The following list of spelling words was compiled by a number of Year 7 schools which all identified the following words as commonly misspelled among this
age group.
accommodation evidence possession actually explanation potential alcohol February preparation although fierce prioritise analyse/analysis forty process argument fulfil proportion assessment furthermore proposition atmosphere guard questionnaire audible happened queue audience health reaction autumn height receive beautiful imaginary reference beginning improvise relief believe industrial remember beneath interesting research buried interrupt resources business issue safety caught jealous Saturday chocolate knowledge secondary climb listening separate column lonely sequence concentration lovely shoulder conclusion marriage sincerely conscience material skilful conscious meanwhile soldier consequence miscellaneous stomach continuous mischief straight creation modern strategy daughter moreover strength decide/decision murmur success definite necessary surely design nervous surprise development original survey diamond outrageous technique diary parallel technology disappear participation texture disappoint pattern tomorrow embarrass peaceful unfortunately energy people Wednesday engagement performance weight enquire permanent weird environment persuade/persuasion women
evaluation physical
Yay in my spelling test I got 53. That means my spelling age is 15+ - Ellen
Everyone who has difficulty with spelling words correctly can derive some comfort from knowing that some very good writers have been notoriously bad spellers. It's also comforting to bad spellers to know that this business of spelling seems to have little to do with intelligence. It has more to do with how we remember things. Some people, once they've seen a word spelled correctly, will never misspell that word again. Those are the people who, if you ask them how to spell a word, will first say, "Wait a second. Let me write it down." If you are not a strong visual learner, but learn in other ways, you will have to learn some other tricks to become a strong speller.
Spelling list
The following list of spelling words was compiled by a number of Year 7 schools
which all identified the following words as commonly misspelled among this
age group.
accommodation evidence possession
actually explanation potential
alcohol February preparation
although fierce prioritise
analyse/analysis forty process
argument fulfil proportion
assessment furthermore proposition
atmosphere guard questionnaire
audible happened queue
audience health reaction
autumn height receive
beautiful imaginary reference
beginning improvise relief
believe industrial remember
beneath interesting research
buried interrupt resources
business issue safety
caught jealous Saturday
chocolate knowledge secondary
climb listening separate
column lonely sequence
concentration lovely shoulder
conclusion marriage sincerely
conscience material skilful
conscious meanwhile soldier
consequence miscellaneous stomach
continuous mischief straight
creation modern strategy
daughter moreover strength
decide/decision murmur success
definite necessary surely
design nervous surprise
development original survey
diamond outrageous technique
diary parallel technology
disappear participation texture
disappoint pattern tomorrow
embarrass peaceful unfortunately
energy people Wednesday
engagement performance weight
enquire permanent weird
environment persuade/persuasion women
evaluation physical
Yay in my spelling test I got 53. That means my spelling age is 15+ - Ellen
Oh I only got 10.2 =( - Caleb